Age peculiarities of clinical course of occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The article is devoted to analysis of the problem of lung diseases due to industrial dust exposure in Kursk region and to studying the clinical features of the most widespread occupational respiratory disease--occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, among patients of various age groups. It is shown that the development of dust-induced bronchoobstructive diseases provokes infringement of physiological lungs aging and in clinical course of the disease in elderly and senile age has its features.